In a Zoom session with the camera off, Mayow describes how he receives unemployment benefits backed by COVID-19 aid instead of the Americans who are entitled to the benefits. Such an international identity theft attack took at least $ 36 billion from ...
The US Department of Justice extradited a Canadian citizen from Spain and charged him with defrauding more than one million Americans worth nearly $ 200 million in international mail fraud. His scheme has been functioning for almost 20 years. The Daily Mail writes about this. ...
The US Immigration and Customs Police have deported a Russian citizen accused of fraud using electronic communications, writes Fox News. ICE began expulsion proceedings back in February. On Thursday, December 3, the immigration authorities deported a Russian citizen convicted of participating in a fraudulent ...
In California, a man who tried to run for mayor of Hawthorne is suspected of fraud. He allegedly applied for voter registration on behalf of thousands of non-existent people, the suspect does not admit his guilt. More details about the incident were reported by the ABC7 edition. The prosecutor's office claims that his ...
As the number of online shoppers increases this year due to COVID-19, cybercriminals are launching new scams ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, writes Threat Post. The number of online holiday shoppers is expected to surge this year due to the pandemic - and therefore...
While the global pandemic has pushed some companies to allow employees to work from home, the concept is not new. Working from home has been and remains an opportunity for many people to make money. But this does not mean that every job offer remotely or ...
Scammers posing as representatives of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are using reliable-looking emails to threaten victims. This scam is gaining momentum, writes Fox Business. Swindlers are perfecting their criminal art. Fraud using fake “letters from the IRS” has been around for a long time...
A travel agency partner in Chicago (Illinois) pleaded guilty to illegal use of customer data to accumulate airline bonus miles. This was reported on the website of the US Department of Justice. Gennady Podolsky, who has dual citizenship of Ukraine and the United States and managing partner of Vega International Travel ...
A Twitter user named The Science Femme claimed to be a female academic, a racial minority, and an immigrant. She spoke harshly of other women scientists and accused them of racial intolerance. It turned out that behind this image was a white man...
You may have noticed that the number of robotic calls dropped when the pandemic broke out. As call centers open around the world, the number of calls from robots is increasing. But scammers come up with more and more ways to bypass protection. About 5 such methods ...